• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford) , Jennifer Rampling (Princeton/All Souls)
• Timing: All sessions will be held on Wednesdays, 17:00-18:45
• Web Address: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/visiting-the-college
• Organising department: All Souls College

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Fear and loathing of the imagination: the religious foundations of anti-hypotheticalism in early modern natural philosophy’
  Rob Iliffe (Linacre College, Oxford)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Teaching the sciences, medicine and philosophy at madrasas and mosques (12th-17th centuries)’
  Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Girolamo Cardano’s De prudentia eximia et artificiosa (1576): mathematics and decision-making’
  Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Alfonsine astronomy: a research project’
  Matthieu Husson (Paris Observatory)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The travel diary of Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonianism, antiquarianism, and scientific peregrination’
  Anna-Marie Roos (University of Lincoln; All Souls College, Oxford)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The last astronomer's lost book: Walter le Pruz between England and France in the thirteenth century'
  Justin Stover (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The philosopher as salon wit: the Descartes-Chandoux affair’
  Raphaele Garrod (CRASSH, Cambridge)

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘“Arabica veritas” – Europeans’ search for “truth” in Arabic scientific and philosophical literature of the Middle Ages’
  Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The “Decline of magic” reconsidered’
  MICHAEL HUNTER (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Perceptions of nature between scholastic knowledge and individual observation: William Merle’s weather diary (1337-1344) and his De prognosticatione aeris (1340)’
  MAXIMILIAN SCHUH (Heidelberg)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Robert Hooke, art, and craft in Restoration London’
  FELICITY HENDERSON (Exeter)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The transmission of mechanical technologies between the Mediterranean and China in antiquity’
  ANDREW WILSON (All Souls College, Oxford)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘News from Sicily: Italian naturalists and the Royal Society on volcanic eruptions and earthquakes’
  CANCELLED - Please accept our apologies, but this lecture has been cancelled due to illness.
  MONICA AZZOLINI (Bologna)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Questions on twelfth-century cosmology’
  BARBARA OBRIST (CHSPAM, Paris)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘“Airs” as boundary objects: the elaboration of a collective knowledge at the crossroad of chemistry, practical arts, and medicine in the eighteenth century’
  MARIE-ALINE THÉBAUD-SORGER (Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris;)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - ‘Atha brahmāṇḍanirmāṇa: an Aristotelian view of the cosmos in a sixteenth-century Sanskrit text on mathematical astronomy’
  Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been cancelled
  ANUJ MISRA (Observatoire de Paris)

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Experiment and enterprise: the reformation of English alchemy in the sixteenth century’
  Jennifer Rampling (Princeton/All Souls)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The chemical arts in antiquity: metals, spirits and medicines’
  Matteo Martelli (Bologna)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Robert Hooke’s vibrating matter and Isaac Newton’s aether Queries’
  Xiona Want (Warburg Institute)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Knowing with images: natural history illustration and cartography in the global Renaissance’
  Surekha Davies (Utrecht)

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘“Desire is the Essence of Man”. Kepler’s optics, Descartes’ epistemology and Spinoza’s politics’
  Ofer Gal (Sydney)